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<h2 class="heading2">Scheduling a Task</h2>
<p class="procedureheading">To schedule a task:</p>
<ol class="procedurelistnumber"><li class="procedurelistnumber">On your Home page, click the <strong class="specialbold">Scheduled Tasks </strong>icon.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Select the system user account on whose behalf the task will be executed.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">Add New Task</strong>.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Specify when to run your command.<ul class="listbullet2"><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Minute</strong> - enter the value from 0 to 59</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Hour</strong> - enter the value from 0 to 23</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Day of the Month</strong> - enter the value from 1 to 31</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Month</strong> - enter the value from 1 to 12, or select the month from a drop-down box</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Day of the Week</strong> - enter the value from 0 to 6 (0 for Sunday), or select the day of the week from a drop-down box</li></ul><p class="listcontinue">You can schedule the time using the UNIX crontab entry format. In this format, you can</p>
<ul class="listbullet2"><li class="listbullet2">enter several values separated by commas. Two numbers separated by a hyphen mean an inclusive range. For example, to run a task on the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 20th of a month, type 4-6,20.</li><li class="listbullet2">insert an asterisk to specify all values allowed for this field. For example, to run a task daily, type * in the <strong class="specialbold">Day of the Month</strong> text box.</li></ul><p class="listcontinue">To schedule the task to run every Nth period, enter the combination */N, where N is the legal value for this field (minute, hour, day, month). For example, */15 in the <strong class="specialbold">Minute</strong> field schedules the task to start every 15 minutes. </p>
<p class="listcontinue">You can type the contracted names of months and days of the week, which are the first three letters: Aug, Jul, Mon, Sat, etc. However, the contracted names cannot be separated with commas or used together with numbers.</p>
</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Specify which command to run. Type it into the <strong class="specialbold">Command</strong> input box.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">OK</strong>.</li></ol><p class="bodytext"></p>


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